Chapter 3: Sun Bakes the Earth

We'll be going on a bit of a timeskip, the Mane 6 has already entered the Everfree Forest and are trekking through it.

Enjoy the chapter!

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It could've been a cage in a deep, bottomless pit. It could've been her tied up and gagged in some isolated, dark place. She could've been trapped in a maze made of mirrors and her own fears.

But no, she was entangled by ropes of pure, burning light while in a blazing place with no visible escape route. Then again, Luna expected this might be something like she experienced her worst fears in a labyrinth with no escape.

Despite her mighty title of being both the princess of the day and the night, she still held on to her preference of choosing the dark of night over the light of day as her favorite time. Years of moving the sun across the sky everyday and bringing forth the daytime had given her time to appreciate the beauty and warmth each hour brought forward, but if she had to choose, she adored more her beautiful night where the call, peacefulness could sooth her in ways the light couldn't.

So while it was not so much as her worst fears, rather as an uncomfortable situation, she still would say she was trapped in this placed.

The place seemed to grow brighter by the minute, indicating that Solar Flare was increasing the light's intensity over all of Equestria, causing the land to grow warmer and more blinding every minute. She knew many couldn't last long in this harshness and would retreat into their houses or elsewhere fir protection from the sun, but it wouldn't last much longer. Ponies had to go out and do stuff. Run errands, tend to crops, gather food, greet each other.

Each of them had necessities to do and they couldn't do them with a harsh world just outside.

She sighed and squirmed against her unyielding binds. She knew she could not escape, not while Solar Flare was out there. She only hoped now that her faithful student would be able to push through in the end.

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Even in the shadows of the Everfree Forest, sunlight still blared through the treetops. The path the six ponies were on was uncharted, yet they believe they were going the right way. Still, eventually they came to a cliff where they had to walk out into the sun's harmful rays on a narrow path to go along.

Still, as they were blinded with the light and distracted with the talking and trying to stay on the narrow path, it also meant that they were in the sights of the alicorn from the legends herself. In a form that could only be described as a glittering, mass of flames that had been condensed into a thick mist, the object could now move with top speeds through the sunlight without being detected. Especially now as it sank into the rocky cliff that supported the six ponies now.

The mist quickly darted away as the ground beneath their hooves gave way and they started tumbling down the hill, towards the ravine. The pair of pegasuses flew up, out of the danger, but then dove back down to help the others. But the mist did not interfere, as there were double the ratio of non-flight ponies compared to the two who could fly. Even if the pegasus could help, there'd still be two more to try to save themselves.

Luckily, they'd probably give up after this and her plan would be safe from those planning to disrupt it.

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And she is disappointed when it fails when Applejack saved Twilight and the rest of them were safely brought to the bottom. I'm sorry if it seems like I'm just slightly altering scenes to go with this version, but I have to say that the original script is probably the best I got. After all, though blinding light does seem to save the same effect on someone's vision as stumbling through darkness, it doesn't seem as... villainous or evil as if it was based in eternal night as the original was. I suppose a point in this story is to give some evil aspects to light and day while giving the night and dark some good aspects and respect.

Anyways, thanks for checking out the new chapter. Please leave a review and I'll see you next time with the new chapter. Sincerely, v.t.7